Case description
Former Tsentrenergo officials and the head of the United Energy company are accused of intentionally causing UAH 176.8 million in losses to the energy company through fraudulent electricity sales.
Oleksandr Uvarov, former Tsentrenergo board member; Kateryna Tokar, former director of the Tsentrenergo department; as well as Andrii Korotkevych-Leshchenko, head of United Energy private company, are accused of causing UAH 176.8 million in losses to Tsentrenergo PJSC.
According to the investigation, in 2020, Oleksandr Uvarov, former member of the management board of Tsentrenergo, and Kateryna Tokar, former head of one of its departments, concluded electricity sales agreements with United Energy LLC, which was represented by its head Andrii Korotkevych-Leshchenko. According to the conditions of auctions, the enterprise was to guarantee to collect a set volume of electricity.
United Energy had to pay a fine because it failed to collect the electricity. However, additional agreements were retroactively concluded with the firm: the provision on the permitted deviation limits of 5% of the contractual volume of electricity collection was excluded from the main agreements.
These changes allowed United Energy to collect any volume of electricity, despite previous agreements. As a result of these actions, Tsentrenergo suffered UAH 176.8 million in losses.
Uvarov is charged under Article 364, part 2 and Article 366, part 1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Tokar and Korotkevych-Leshchenko are charged under the same articles as accomplices. The preparatory hearing at the High Anti-Corruption Court is ongoing.
